I wouldn't pretend to understand the machinations of the regime or country. For the most part it appears that diplomatically they wish to be considered 'moderate' for the ME, conservative regarding religion. They do not treat non-royals well, they use slavery. They are not our friends. Several links at site and there's alot more all over the web by others:

Heres a story with huge implications for freedom of speech (all negative), and its apparently gone almost entirely unreported in the mainstream press. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required), under threat of a law suit, Cambridge University Press has just agreed to pulp all unsold copies of the 2006 book, Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World. According to the Chronicle, this is the fourth such book on terrorism funding to be pursued by a libel action. The Chronicle quotes Rachel Ehrenfeld, director of the American Center for Democracy, whose own book, Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financedand How to Stop It is one of the four books.

In an interview on Monday, Ms. Ehrenfeld characterized as "despicable" Cambridge's decision to settle this week, a move the press has defended as necessary and just. Ms. Ehrenfeld, who is a friend of Mr. Burr's [one of the authors of Alms for Jihad], said that, as she understands it, press officials "caved immediately."

"They didn't even consider the evidence that the authors had given them," she said. "They received a threatening letter, and they immediately caved in and said, Do whatever it takes. Pay them whatever they want. Ban the book, destroy the book, we don't want this lawsuit."

In a blog post entitled, "Attention Authors: Be afraid, very afraid....especially if you write about the Saudis and their support of terrorism," Emory University professor, Deborah Lipstadt elaborates. In addition to the links within Lipstadts post, you can find related stories at the website of Ehrenfelds American Center for Democracy. Given MSMs silence, this looks like one for the blogosphere.

I wouldn't pretend to understand the machinations of the regime or country. For the most part it appears that diplomatically they wish to be considered 'moderate' for the ME, conservative regarding religion. They do not treat non-royals well, they use slavery. They are not our friends. Several links at site and there's alot more all over the web by others:

No matter how much we try to quantify the behavioristic aspects of the saudis or the mentalistic aspects of islam and how it relates to democracy, we will never be accepted in the few nations that have not jumped on the democratic global bandwagon. Eventually the entire world and every nation will be some sort of democracy but, converting to that form of government in the middle east, is equivalent to oppression, if your an extremist. So alot of the times, democracy is put in place just to do buisness, but the true extremists will never accept anything western other than their money and/or weapons. Why? Because they want to be free to manipulate anyone who can be manipulated. Its theological greed. Wanting god all for yourself and your group, hating those who dont want him so much, and eventually... Killing those who dare to ask you to take the focus off of him for a minute.

I wouldn't pretend to understand the machinations of the regime or country. For the most part it appears that diplomatically they wish to be considered 'moderate' for the ME, conservative regarding religion. They do not treat non-royals well, they use slavery. They are not our friends. Several links at site and there's alot more all over the web by others:

And this surprises you because...? A significant amount of funding for the Sunni insurgents in Iraq comes from Saudi Arabia. The majority of the suicide bombers in Iraq are foreign nationals and most of those from Saudi Arabia. Tis latter being a benefit to the Saudi royal family as it siphons off radicals that would otherwise be blowing themselves up in Riyadh and on the doorsteps of the House of Saud. The radicalism of wahabism lies at the root of Al Qaeda's radicalism.

Saudi Arabia is playing, and has always played, its own game. And America's unwillingness to give up its dependence on the oil teat have made it a player in that game. In Iraq, we are now seeing the true cost of sitting at the table in that game.

And this surprises you because...? A significant amount of funding for the Sunni insurgents in Iraq comes from Saudi Arabia. The majority of the suicide bombers in Iraq are foreign nationals and most of those from Saudi Arabia. Tis latter being a benefit to the Saudi royal family as it siphons off radicals that would otherwise be blowing themselves up in Riyadh and on the doorsteps of the House of Saud. The radicalism of wahabism lies at the root of Al Qaeda's radicalism.

Saudi Arabia is playing, and has always played, its own game. And America's unwillingness to give up its dependence on the oil teat have made it a player in that game. In Iraq, we are now seeing the true cost of sitting at the table in that game.

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Where are you getting the stats on the nationality of these homocide bombers ?

And this surprises you because...? A significant amount of funding for the Sunni insurgents in Iraq comes from Saudi Arabia. The majority of the suicide bombers in Iraq are foreign nationals and most of those from Saudi Arabia. Tis latter being a benefit to the Saudi royal family as it siphons off radicals that would otherwise be blowing themselves up in Riyadh and on the doorsteps of the House of Saud. The radicalism of wahabism lies at the root of Al Qaeda's radicalism.

Saudi Arabia is playing, and has always played, its own game. And America's unwillingness to give up its dependence on the oil teat have made it a player in that game. In Iraq, we are now seeing the true cost of sitting at the table in that game.

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